Healthy Vege Pizza

TQ to group KURUS & SIHAT, idea dari Dr.Ezue, telah beri inspirasi untuk saya mencari idea baru resepi sihat. So hari ni 1st day challenge...semoga kami semua istiqomah...:)

Mlm ni just buat quick meal.... 30 min dah ready. Ni portion untuk 2 orang ye...

ready...? 

Bahan-Bahan:

2 keping wholegrain massimo tortila wrap (bran lain pun boleh)

1/2 biji lada benggala hijau - dipotong panjang2

1/2 biji bawang besar - dihiris kasar

1 biji tomato - dihiris bulat

5 biji cendawan butang - dihiris

2 sudu besar tomato paste (saya buat sendiri)

1 genggam penuh mozarella cheese (boleh lebih jika suka)

1 sudu kecil butter

sedikit blackpepper

Cara2 :

1. Panaskan Oven pada suhu 180 darjah celcius, api atas bawah.

2. Panaskan 1 keping tortila wrap dalam non-stik pan dengan api kecil sehingga agak garing. Angkat dan ketepikan. (penting supaya pizza tak lembik).

3. Dengan menggunakan pan yg sama, cairkan butter. Masukkan button mushroom dan blackpepper. kacau sehingga cendawan sedikit layu...lebih kurang 1 minit dgn api perlahan. Ketepikan.

4. Susun tortila...lapisan bawah, tortila yg tak dipanaskan. Taburkan sedikit mozarella cheese dan lapiskan dengan tortila yg dipanaskan tadi. Sapu rata tomato paste. Lapiskan lagi dengan sedikit mozarella cheese.

5. Atur tomato hiris, lada benggala, cendawan butang dan bawang besar. Taburkan sedikit black pepper dan tabur kesemua baki mozarella.

6. Bakar dalam oven yg telah dipanaskan selama 7-10 minit.

Sedia dimakan...:)... biarkan sejuk sikit baru makan... takut nanti melecur mulut...

nota : 

1. untuk vegetable boleh guna terung panjang, spinach, zucchini, red capsicum, yellow capsicum dll

2. resepi home made tomato paste saya akan kongsi dalam entry akan datang ye. 

Banana Choc Chips Muffin

I make a simple and easy muffin last night, memandangkan ada 2 biji pisang yang sudah sangat ranum, daripada busuk, baik buat something. ingat nak buat cekodok je, tapi sape nak makan... buat muffin the boleh simpan.

Potato Gratin (Side for any meats main)

This side dish goes well with any main like beef or lamb. Pretty simple to made and just need a little preparation. And u can play around with the flavor like adding a little spice, or u can add a little zest of lemon to get tangy taste, otherwise u just make it plain... but its not too plain actually... its rich, creamy and crunchy parmesan cheese on top layer.

Chocolate Eclairs

Just back from redang island... a wonderful holiday with all my good friends. n we still can have this chocolate eclairs there... One of my friends really want this... so i made the pastry shoes in advance... bake n keep in sealing bag. Also make the chocolate melt in advance... coz i know its hard to double boil chocolate there using mini portable camping stove. I made the custard there... bring all the ingredients for custard from here coz as i know no kedai runcit kat sana.

After tired of swimming and snorkeling... we had this as our dessert after dinner meal provided by chalet managment.


its fun having cold chocolate ecliars there. Here is the real recipe.... bukan for travelers resepi... hehehhe


Ingredients :

For puff pastry :

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of water
• 1/2 cup of butter - dice
• 4 eggs
• 1 tbsp sugar
• pinch of salt

For custard filling :

• 1 1/2 cups of milk (fresh milk)
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter
  
• 2 tbsp full cornstarch
  
• 5 tbsp sugar - if don't like sweet, reduce to 4 tbsp
• 1 egg
  
• 2 egg yolk
• pinch of salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extract

For melt chocolate :

• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter

or

• 1 cup of semisweet chocolate
• 1/2 cup of heavy cream
• 1 tbsp light corn syrup (optional)
  

Method :

Preheat oven at 180 C


Bring to boil water, salt, sugar and butter over medium heat.


Add in flour. Stir to combine. keep stirring until the dough will start come together. turn the heat down to low.


As you continue stirring, you should be able to easily form a ball out of the dough. Continue stirring for few more minutes.


Put the dough into a bowl and beat with mixer on low speed. let the dough cools down. when u don't see any steam and the bottom of the bowl just feels slightly warm, then proceed to the next step.


Add in eggs one at a time. mixwell before add another egg. increase the mixer speed as the dough will get thicker and harder to mix. scrape the sides of the bowl n mix well again.


the dough will be like this.


put the dough into a disposable piping bag. (any plastic bag also can as long as can stand with pressure). cut off the tip - about 1 cm.

place a parchment paper on a baking sheet. squirt small amount about 3 inchs long (logs) and the width about the finger size. space them apart. wet your finger and smooth out the logs as best as u can.

bake in preheat oven for 18 - 25 minutes or until the eclairs shells turn to golden brown.

place the baked eclairs shell on wire rack n let it cool.


For Custard Filling:

Beat egg and egg yolks and cornstarch until smooth. put aside.

Pour milk in a pot and heat over medium heat. Add in sugar and salt. stir until all sugar dissolve.Low the heat. once the milk come up to slow simmer, slowly pour 1/4 of milk into the egg/constarch mix while vigorously whisking to avoid scrambling the eggs.

Pour back the mixture from the bowl into pot, over medium-low heat. Keep whisking for 5-8 minutes non-stop.

its will thicken up and boil. when it looks as though it is pulling away from the pot, turn off the heat.

Add in butter and vanilla extract. mix well (sieve before adding butter and vanilla if u wish to get smoother texture of custard)

refrigerated for 2 hours .


For Melt Chocolate:

Double boil the chocolate until melt. add the rest ingredients and mix until all combine.


To Assemble :


Pipe in custard into pastry shell. and dip half into chocolate melt.





And now you can enjoy it or chill for a while before eating.....

Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding with Twin Sauce

What make me create 2 sauce... ying/yang inspired me to make this twin sauce... and its turn out so good with two different taste... and also presentable when u serve with two different color of sauce. You can add slice of strawberries or mix fruit compote on top as a deciration.

Ingredients :

For bread pudding

10 slice gardenia chocolate raisin bread (cut to 2)

2 tbsp butter (at room temperature)

350 ml chocolate milk

50 ml heavy cream (or can use 300ml chocolate milk + 100ml whipping cream)

2 large egg

pinch of salt

1/2 cup prune (i guna sunsweet) - chopped coarsely

1/2 cup chocolate chips

for the vanilla sauce

1 egg (beaten)

3 tbsp brown sugar

1/4 white sugar (can add more if u like)

2 tbsp butter

1 tbsp all purpose flour

2 tsp vanilla essence

dash of nutmeg

1 1/4 cup whipping cream (can use half n half = susu n cream sama banyak)

* combine everything in a saucepan( except butter).... bring to simmer over low heat , stirr until slightly thicken... remove from heat, add butter n mix well.

for chocolate sauce

1 cup chocolate milk

3 tbsp chocolate powder (can use cocoa powder)

2 tbsp white sugar

1/2 tbsp all purpose flour

2 tbsp butter

* combine all ingredients (except butter) in a saucepan n bring to simmer over low heat. strirr until slightly thicken. remove from heat and add butter, mix well

method :

1. preheat oven at 180 C

2. grease butter on baking pan (or baking dish) and on the both side of bread.

3. heat milk and cream until simmer. turn the heat off.

4. beat the eggs with pinch of salt. pour the milk into the eggs... keep whisking. mixwell.

5. arrange bread on baking dish, overlapping. sprinkle the prune n chocolate chips n make another layer on top.

6. Pour the egg-milk mix all over the bread until almost covering all the surface. add prune on top anf sprinkle with sugar.

7. bake for 35-40 minutes. remove from oven and allow to cool ( let the steam out from the pudding)

8. cut n serve with vanilla n chocolate sauce.

* i pakai santan instead of cream coz the day i buat ni... cream out of stock... n it taste good

The Healthy Carrot Cake

Ingredients

• 240 grams carrots (grated)
• 120 grams pineapples (tinned, drained and chopped)
• 60 grams raisins (lightly chopped)
• 60 grams walnuts (toasted, cooled and chopped coarsely)
• 240 grams self-raising flour
• 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon powder
• 1/4 teaspoons nutmeg powder
• 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoons vanilla essence (add to eggs)
• 3 eggs
• 210 grams castor sugar
• 180 ml cooking oil

Method

Sift the flour with soda and baking powder. Add castor sugar.

Whisk eggs until frothy in a separate bowl. Add in vanilla essence.

Pour egg mixture into the flour and stir well. Then add grated carrots followed by cooking oil. Add in the chopped pineapples and stir well.

Then add in the raisins and walnuts.

Pour mixture into a greased and floured tray and bake in a preheated oven at 170°C for 45 minutes.

Remove from oven and allow to stand to cool

Chocolate chips cookies

Almost everybody like chocolate chips cookies... crunch in a bite size... and for me... i always buy at famous amos b4... but it a bit too expensive for me. Then i make my own chocolate chips cookies, 1 attempt was not so good. And i do few search to get a good recipe and thanx to joyofbaking.com and also allrecipes.com for my reference.

Resepi ni dah ada sikit tokok tambah dan ada juga yang dikurangkan sukatan bahan2nya mengikut citarasa saya... tetapi jika anda tidak suka sangat manis, boleh kurangkan sukatan gula pasir.

Ingredients :

• 200 - 220g flour (sifted)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 8 tbsp unsalted butter (room temperature)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large egg (room temperature)
• 1 1/3 semi sweet chocolate chips ( i use hershey's)

Method :

1. Preheat oven at 340F/180C.
2. In a bowl, combine all dry ingredients together (flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt), and mix well.
3. Beat butter until soften in the other bowl. Add in granulated white sugar and brown sugar, continue beating until butter n sugar well combine and soft.
4. Add eggs, beat. Add vanilla extract, beat to combine.
5. Add dry Ingredients portion by portion (make it in 3 batches), beat until well mix.
6. Add chocolate chips and mix using a spatula.
7. Use a teaspoon, make a mini droplet into baking tray (line in with baking paper / perchment paper). bake for 12 - 15 minutes.
8. let the cookies rest on wire rack until cool.

notes : The dough is soft and sticky on hands (picture below)

The cookies is soft when take out from oven.. but will crispy when it cool... so let it completely cool on wire rack before store.

Red Valvet Cake

Last night... after having a good dinner (Laksam) with my good friends.... and after chit chat... an later on tak leh nak tido, mula lah kepala ni ligat memikirkan nak buat apa untuk isi masa.. That time dah already 3am. jadilah this acctidentally red valvet cake... even tak cukup coloring... n i saw sirap ros, just add the syrup to get the more valvety color. the color turn out not bad... but not as red as using pure red food coloring. And the cake lebih moist sikit coz of syrup.

here is the recipe ( not the recipe using syrup,...hehhehehe)

Ingredients :

2 1/2 cups (250 g) all purpose flour - sifted
1/2 tsp salt - powdered
2 tbsp (20g) cocoa powder - sifted
2 tbsp red food coloring (if not enough red, add more)
1/2 cup (150 g) unsalted butter (at room temperature)
1 1/2 cups (300 g ) of caster sugar
2 large eggs
1 cup (240 ml) of buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp white vinegar

For frosting ;
250g cream cheese - softened at room temperature
2 cups icing sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2/3 (160 ml) of whipping cream

2 of 7 inch baking pan (grease n layered with perchment paper at bottom)


Method :

1. Preheat oven at 180 C
2. Combine sifted flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder in a bowl.
3. Mix food coloring with buttermilk, stir until mix well mix.
4. In a large bowl, beat 1/2 of butter and sugar until smooth, add egg one each time. turn the mixer speed to high and beat until smooth.
5. Turn the mixer speed to low, add in 1/2 of flour, 1/2 buttermilk. Beat. Add in vanilla extract n repeat, do not over mix.
6. In a small bowl, stir in baking soda with vinegar and fold into the cake mixture. mix well.
7. Divide the batter evenly into cake pan. bake until cook about 30 - 40 minutes or insert a stick into cake and come out clean.
8. Let the cake cool for about 10 minutes, an refrigerated about 10 more minutes before slice it.
9. Layer the cake n frosting evenly. and coat the whole cake with frosting, garnish with red velvet cake crumbs.

Cake Frosting :

whisk cream cheese until smooth. Add icing sugar, vanilla extract and whipping cream, beat until smooth and fluffy

Note :

• for the frosting, u can add butter instead of cream, but frosting will be slightly thicker.
• u can make 1/2 of this recipe measurement for size 5 inch (use 2 of 5 inch baking pan)

cake, after slicing

layered with cream cheese frosting

cake crumbs for decoration

final touch.. skirting frosting

We bring this cake to our trip at Redang... hmmm sampai sana rasa macam tak cukup la pulak....